Desire; animal passion; -- supposed to create the ka"ma ru"pa (rOOpa) [Skr. rUpa shape, image], a kind of simulacrum or astral likeness of a man which exists after his death in an invisible plane of being, called ka"ma lo"ca (lO"ka) [Skr. lOka space, world], until the impulses which created it are exhausted and it finally fades away.